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Ok...
Herself's St. Bernard won't eat unless I am sitting there playing my box.
Last night, his bowl being empty, he walked up to my box sitting on my easy chair and shoved it with his nose a couple of times, then turned looking at me with furled brow and great intensity.
Herself filled his bowl and the beast chowed down....
Slow news day on the south side of Chicago waiting for the Olympic folks to declare Madrid the winner of the 2016 sweepstakes.
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That's a riot! I guess he likes the ambiance of background music with dinner.
My dog will eat any time any where, but won't drink unless I am home. Don't have to be in the same room just in the house.
It concerns me on hot days but she's 11 years old so I guess it's no harm to her.
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No. He used the tip of that big snout of his. He is not much of a drooler... He seemed to out grow that by a year old or so...and outgrew alot else! When they play it is like getting hit by linebacker.
I always did think he had good taste in music though. He seems to enjoy the Paddy O'Brien sets. Those are what I have been working on lately.
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zippy—
No worries about the dead horse business—that's where dog food comes from after all. Haute cuisine, too.
My larcenous dog will eat anything, any time, in any sonic environment. Must enjoy the ambient music made by the stomach pump, since there have been second and third visits for that experience. $$$.
The I.O.C. may have the cojones to stand up to The Artist Formerly Known as The One—but can they deny Oprah? Their knees are knocking.
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My dog would eat a child's arse through a stool and is totally unconcerned whether I am in the house or not or whether WW3 has broken out around him.If I died in the kitchen when nobodys in the house he would reduce me to bones and hair within a week . A piranha on 4 paws
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Mine (a Spanador) eats at 1900 hours and it's the highlight of her day. Whatever else she finds (rats, mice, birds and whatever the butcher wants to give her on market day because she's soooo cute) is bonus. Surprisingly, she's rather fit.
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Zippy, his name is Juan Antonio Samaranch.
And the general thought here is that either Rio or Chicago will win.
Anyway, I don't really know whether or not hosting the OG is a good thing for the city's people.
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Don't mean to be dull, but your St. Bernard has intrigued me. My educated guess is that you unknowingly conditioned him to this behaviour by happening to be playing whenever it was his time to eat, and now he thinks that the strange contraption that folds in and out and makes lots of noise is what signals the human to put food in his bowl.
Sort of the same idea as a dog learning to bark when it needs to go outside.
My border collie is indifferent to my music, but the chihuahua that I look after every week hides under the couch whenever I play. Maybe I should take a hint?
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My dog eats away happily but he howls at certain notes on the concertina and also the saxophone. Strange but true, just as well I play the banjo and fiddle.
Then again I would not blame him for howling at my fiddle playing
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Tasia is probably right, Zippy. You've classically conditioned your dog to associate food with the accordion. Awesome. Now if we could classically condition some pubs to associate the behaviour of pouring a free pint with Irish music, that would be even more awesome.
As far as horses go, at racetracks they have to take regular urine samples from the horses to check that they're not on steroids, painkillers, pot (okay, maybe not) and other illegal drugs. They train the horse to pee when the trainer whistles at it. So think of the fun you could have with your pet by always playing tunes at certain times so it gets conditioned to whatever behaviours when you play.
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My dog knows that when I finish practising flute is a good time to suggest a walk as an alternative to whatever I am really supposed to be doing next. He can tell the difference between finishing and just pausing for a while - I must make distinctive flute swabbing noises. We both prefer the walk first though.
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My dog goes next door and lies on the couch when I play my whistle.
Sometimes I take her to the session with me (it's in a pub on the other side of the park anyway) and then she just lies in the way of anybody coming and going and gets lots of fusses.
Once she got away from me in the middle of a tune, she just wandered around cadging treats off anybody who would feed her. She isn't too keen on crisps and pork scratchings are her favourite. But on the whole "anytime, anyplace, anywhere and pretty much anything" is her motto when it comes to food.
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I like the idea of conditioning the bar keep to pour away when music is played.
Herself is enjoying this. She really babies this pooch and worries incessasantly that he is not eating enough, regularly etc. Now she pours food and tells me to play so the dog eats on a regular schedule!
Our daughter's old german shepherd (deceased now) would howl whenever I played whistle.
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Neither one of our dogs likes music at all.
However, our female German Shepherd likes Shiner Bock beer but our male Golden Retriever does not like beer at all.
"And it's hard to read whether the world still holds it against the US for showing the questionable judgement of twice electing a dimwit." Now wait a minute, Zippy, I don't remember running for President (maybe that's what happens to you after drinking too much of that "foreign" beer from Texas called Shiner Bock)
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At our friend's house where we play frequently, there is a big Akita, who my wife has been playing with more and more lately. So now that he has had encouragement, he thinks nothing of coming up to us when we are playing, and pushing our instruments out of the way so he can give us a lick. Not sure how to get him back to his lying down spot, as a 100 pound Akita is no one to argue with!!!
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My half Siberian Husky puppy (who is no longer a puppy but only middling big in relation to an Akita, like around 25 kgs) was reared on Trad from before he was born. He doesn't mind me playing at all, and he's never interfered either. His Mum, a cattle dog of very dubious lineage, watches me go to the music cabinet ... if its a fiddle I pull out, that's alright, but if its the mandolin she gets really excited anticipating the shiny bits reflecting moving lights onto the walls and ceiling. These mesmerize her. Its not the music per se, and it doesn't matter what genre.
There's one instrument the puppy doesn't like and that's the bodhran ... if I want him to vacate the house pronto ... have just to give bodhran a thwack, and hey presto, he's out the back, very quick. Its an el cheapo Walton's with a very very tight skin ... makes an awful racket and I never play it.
To tie this to the end of the thread, there's a bar in town usually has dogs tethered around the verandah part onto the Mall and people drinking with their mates outside, but its also a restaurant so dogs can't go in ... and its a sportsman's bar ... huge TV screens, AFL, rugby, soccer, horse and car racing etc. ... sigh! Very popular and the food is fantastic.
Seen plenty of dogs tethered outside other pubs, but I doubt they're allowed in. They're having a big blitz on dogs around town. A couple of people got eaten (did dogs kill 'em? or just gnaw their bones after?)!!! Too many dogs running amuck. The council had to do something and got strict ... hardly conducive to bringing yer dog down to the local for a few tunes. Yikes, we don't have that either, well not without mics and performers ... sigh!
More on Dogs- Hope I am not beating a dead horse....
More on Dogs- Hope I am not beating a dead horse....
Ok...
Herself's St. Bernard won't eat unless I am sitting there playing my box.
Last night, his bowl being empty, he walked up to my box sitting on my easy chair and shoved it with his nose a couple of times, then turned looking at me with furled brow and great intensity.
Herself filled his bowl and the beast chowed down....
Slow news day on the south side of Chicago waiting for the Olympic folks to declare Madrid the winner of the 2016 sweepstakes.
# Posted on October 1st 2009 by zippydw
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That's a riot! I guess he likes the ambiance of background music with dinner.
My dog will eat any time any where, but won't drink unless I am home. Don't have to be in the same room just in the house.
It concerns me on hot days but she's 11 years old so I guess it's no harm to her.
She doesn't seem to care about music.
Mary
# Posted on October 1st 2009 by Antikhntr
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HA! Good doggie!
St. B's are wicked droolers, didja have to wipe down the box after?
# Posted on October 1st 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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No. He used the tip of that big snout of his. He is not much of a drooler... He seemed to out grow that by a year old or so...and outgrew alot else! When they play it is like getting hit by linebacker.
I always did think he had good taste in music though. He seems to enjoy the Paddy O'Brien sets. Those are what I have been working on lately.
# Posted on October 1st 2009 by zippydw
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zippy—
No worries about the dead horse business—that's where dog food comes from after all. Haute cuisine, too.
My larcenous dog will eat anything, any time, in any sonic environment. Must enjoy the ambient music made by the stomach pump, since there have been second and third visits for that experience. $$$.
The I.O.C. may have the cojones to stand up to The Artist Formerly Known as The One—but can they deny Oprah? Their knees are knocking.
# Posted on October 1st 2009 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
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I figure that Juan Samaranch (?spelling) who headed up IOC wants Spain to get another shot before he retires to his heavenly reward
And it's hard to read whether the world still holds it against the US for showing the questionable judgement of twice electing a dimwit.
# Posted on October 1st 2009 by zippydw
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My dog would eat a child's arse through a stool and is totally unconcerned whether I am in the house or not or whether WW3 has broken out around him.If I died in the kitchen when nobodys in the house he would reduce me to bones and hair within a week . A piranha on 4 paws
# Posted on October 1st 2009 by Red Robin
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Mine (a Spanador) eats at 1900 hours and it's the highlight of her day. Whatever else she finds (rats, mice, birds and whatever the butcher wants to give her on market day because she's soooo cute) is bonus. Surprisingly, she's rather fit.
Music seems to bore the h**l out of her.
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by Fanning
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Zippy, his name is Juan Antonio Samaranch.
And the general thought here is that either Rio or Chicago will win.
Anyway, I don't really know whether or not hosting the OG is a good thing for the city's people.
But I like St. Bernards
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by Ramiro
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Don't mean to be dull, but your St. Bernard has intrigued me. My educated guess is that you unknowingly conditioned him to this behaviour by happening to be playing whenever it was his time to eat, and now he thinks that the strange contraption that folds in and out and makes lots of noise is what signals the human to put food in his bowl.
Sort of the same idea as a dog learning to bark when it needs to go outside.
My border collie is indifferent to my music, but the chihuahua that I look after every week hides under the couch whenever I play. Maybe I should take a hint?
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by Glass of Beer
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Or perhaps your dog is gently suggesting that he be fed before he makes your box into a chew toy.
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by leoj
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"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance — a sharp, vindictive glance. " (James Thurber)
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by domnull
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My dog eats away happily but he howls at certain notes on the concertina and also the saxophone. Strange but true, just as well I play the banjo and fiddle.
Then again I would not blame him for howling at my fiddle playing
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by london lass
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Tasia is probably right, Zippy. You've classically conditioned your dog to associate food with the accordion. Awesome. Now if we could classically condition some pubs to associate the behaviour of pouring a free pint with Irish music, that would be even more awesome.
As far as horses go, at racetracks they have to take regular urine samples from the horses to check that they're not on steroids, painkillers, pot (okay, maybe not) and other illegal drugs. They train the horse to pee when the trainer whistles at it. So think of the fun you could have with your pet by always playing tunes at certain times so it gets conditioned to whatever behaviours when you play.
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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HA! Pavlov's Box!
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
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My dog knows that when I finish practising flute is a good time to suggest a walk as an alternative to whatever I am really supposed to be doing next. He can tell the difference between finishing and just pausing for a while - I must make distinctive flute swabbing noises. We both prefer the walk first though.
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by David50
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My dog goes next door and lies on the couch when I play my whistle.
Sometimes I take her to the session with me (it's in a pub on the other side of the park anyway) and then she just lies in the way of anybody coming and going and gets lots of fusses.
Once she got away from me in the middle of a tune, she just wandered around cadging treats off anybody who would feed her. She isn't too keen on crisps and pork scratchings are her favourite. But on the whole "anytime, anyplace, anywhere and pretty much anything" is her motto when it comes to food.
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by flossie
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Oh by the way she is a Utonagan so she looks very like a European wolf. Not really surprising people are willing to give up their pork scratchings!
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by flossie
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I like the idea of conditioning the bar keep to pour away when music is played.
Herself is enjoying this. She really babies this pooch and worries incessasantly that he is not eating enough, regularly etc. Now she pours food and tells me to play so the dog eats on a regular schedule!
Our daughter's old german shepherd (deceased now) would howl whenever I played whistle.
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by zippydw
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Well Juan Antonio....I mean Ramiro.
We both lost.
I suppose the IOC committee prefered places where nude beaches are popular.
I doubt anyone would mistake Chicago's St. Patrick's day parade for Carnivale
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by zippydw
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Ok, congratulations Brazil!
A fair decision IMO.
# Posted on October 2nd 2009 by Ramiro
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Neither one of our dogs likes music at all.
However, our female German Shepherd likes Shiner Bock beer but our male Golden Retriever does not like beer at all.
"And it's hard to read whether the world still holds it against the US for showing the questionable judgement of twice electing a dimwit." Now wait a minute, Zippy, I don't remember running for President (maybe that's what happens to you after drinking too much of that "foreign" beer from Texas called Shiner Bock)
# Posted on October 3rd 2009 by fauxcelt
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You don't remember anything.....much less running for President.
# Posted on October 3rd 2009 by fauxcelt
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At our friend's house where we play frequently, there is a big Akita, who my wife has been playing with more and more lately. So now that he has had encouragement, he thinks nothing of coming up to us when we are playing, and pushing our instruments out of the way so he can give us a lick. Not sure how to get him back to his lying down spot, as a 100 pound Akita is no one to argue with!!!
# Posted on October 3rd 2009 by AlBrown
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Flossie, are dogs allowed in the pubs across the water??
# Posted on October 5th 2009 by Glass of Beer
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How I wish that dogs were allowed at the local pub, especially during the session!
# Posted on October 5th 2009 by leoj
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My half Siberian Husky puppy (who is no longer a puppy but only middling big in relation to an Akita, like around 25 kgs) was reared on Trad from before he was born. He doesn't mind me playing at all, and he's never interfered either. His Mum, a cattle dog of very dubious lineage, watches me go to the music cabinet ... if its a fiddle I pull out, that's alright, but if its the mandolin she gets really excited anticipating the shiny bits reflecting moving lights onto the walls and ceiling. These mesmerize her. Its not the music per se, and it doesn't matter what genre.
There's one instrument the puppy doesn't like and that's the bodhran ... if I want him to vacate the house pronto ... have just to give bodhran a thwack, and hey presto, he's out the back, very quick. Its an el cheapo Walton's with a very very tight skin ... makes an awful racket and I never play it.
To tie this to the end of the thread, there's a bar in town usually has dogs tethered around the verandah part onto the Mall and people drinking with their mates outside, but its also a restaurant so dogs can't go in ... and its a sportsman's bar ... huge TV screens, AFL, rugby, soccer, horse and car racing etc. ... sigh! Very popular and the food is fantastic.
Seen plenty of dogs tethered outside other pubs, but I doubt they're allowed in. They're having a big blitz on dogs around town. A couple of people got eaten (did dogs kill 'em? or just gnaw their bones after?)!!! Too many dogs running amuck. The council had to do something and got strict ... hardly conducive to bringing yer dog down to the local for a few tunes. Yikes, we don't have that either, well not without mics and performers ... sigh!
# Posted on October 5th 2009 by Clear Drops